[favaq]

Let's not pretend almost all diabetics didn't get in that situation themselves.

[bhawks]

1.4 million people in the us alone would disagree with you.

Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with diet it is an autoimmune disease with genetic and possible environmental antecedents.

If you're interested in learning more about type 1 diabetes please check out:

https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/facts

[mhb]

"More than 37 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes."

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html

[qclibre22]

And it's often treatable through diet and vigorous exercise.

"A weight loss of ~15 kg, achieved by calorie restriction as part of an intensive management programme, can lead to remission of T2DM in ~80% of patients with obesity and T2DM." [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ ]

"A novel HIIT-protocol recruiting lower and upper body muscles efficiently improves insulin sensitivity, VO2max and body composition with intact responses in obesity and type 2 diabetes. " [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ ]

The caveat, is of course, "long-term weight loss maintenance is challenging."

[dmreedy]

I pray that you never have to encounter the wrong end of a System